33 SHOCKING Photos of Jim Crow in America

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[@OldFunkyBastard]

@NYTN , .... "MAKE THIS MAKE SENSE TO ME, PLEASE, WHAT IS IT ABOUT THIS THAT WE.... WHY IS IT WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THIS?" Again... " if you do not understand white supremacy (racism) what it is and how it works, everything else you understand will only confuse you " - Neely Fuller jr

[@bluetinsel7099]

It was good that you were able to go over these images. I know many people who were directly effected by much of what you had shown, so it was good for you to touch on that. As for the water hoses and dogs they would use that pressure to harass black protesters and get the dogs on them to bite and harm them, that was also a tactic they did in slavery with the dogs and they would tare up their flesh, it was also used on the real Aboriginal Americans who were later reclassed as black, but using the Spanish n label, so they kept the colonial tactics and this just recently happened within the last year to a black man by officers who are the new slave patrols. So things have changed, but they are still there just more covert now. There are books on this as well. As for the verse you mentioned in the video, that was also referring to hellenised Hebrews or those with Greek language and culture and some were from the northern kingdom as the Yews(Y for J) were the southern kingdom after the split with Solomon, so the northern kingdom were known as Israelites and some were in Greece and were hellenised. So it’s also those of the bloodline that became like other nations. They were broken away from the covenant so they also had to be grafted back in which would be two sticks coming together.

[@Bobbyxhuggy]

When you figure out that black isn’t only from Africa you will understand why the colored people of America get treated so badly. They get treated the same as the Indians in the 1700 and 1800s… they are hated because there are the real American Indian….😮

[@MJones.Jr.]

The picture with Ruby was made into a Norman Rockwell picture that we had hanging up on the stairwell. I wouldn't have seen this if I wasn't adopted. I love your work

[@truetalk9154]

Look I know that you mixed but the truth is mix is wrong the Holy Bible tell us not to mix race, because people do it, don't mean it's right, people always go against YHWH, interracial couple are becoming so common and people are polluting their bloodline and you got confused people like you who don't truly know who you are and want to either consider yourself a new species, you are a mongo the Holy Bible call y'all Bastard

[@bettyjenkins2162]

It's not race baiting it's the truth

[@jirehguy]

They only call it race baiting because it makes them feel bad

[@t.nelson9345]

Very true. Very America. Very Sad😢. Ron DeSantis of Florida will ban the books and movies if he could. Just like a conservative Nazi.

[@ridge7524]

Facts💯 24🇺🇲💙🗽🛡⚖⚔

[@bamboosho0t]

They've scrubbed that "truth" from history books, to call it conjecture or hyperbole. From their perspective, if it's not in one of their "peer-approved history books," it didn't happen or it's wildly over-exaggerated.

[@ridge7524]

@@bamboosho0t right but the truth will not be erased.No matter How hard they try.They don't have the control that they think that they have.They live in their bubble.The majority does not.Even moving forward,it will backfire💯🇺🇲⚖🛡💙🗽

[@dobieh7479]

America doesn't want to talk about her dirt!

[@FABRIC8TIONUNLIMITE1]

The MOST CONSEQUENTIAL thing is, ''In The Beginning of America.''

[@elongatedmanforever1252]

That's all they do is talk about That wtf you talking about??

[@dobieh7479]

@@elongatedmanforever1252 They don't want the dirty history taught to students.

[@elongatedmanforever1252]

@@dobieh7479 How so?? Thomas Sowell got to this a long time ago.

[@dobieh7479]

@@elongatedmanforever1252 Being taught in schools.

[@k.s4075]

My mother is 76 years old and to this day,suffers from trauma from growing up in the South during the 40's ,50's and 60's. Here's her sentiment , "if you wanted me to speak more highly of you, then perhaps you should have treated me better"…

[@user-by6cs1sy7y]

And nobody talks about that

[@sageex3931]

Facts

[@RiLyDemocraShe]

My mom was born in 1932 South Carolina. She has no birth certificate. You should talk to her. She's lived through Jim Crow in SC, NC, FL and MA. Her stories and those of her older relatives, who have since passed are incredible!

[@banditdog1338]

My mom was born in 1918 in SC a white women who married a "Damn Yankee" from NY. She ended up moving us north thank god for that there are still a lot of hateful ignorant people in the south it is changing very slowly. Never let them take our civil rights they were paid for with the blood of good men and women. Before her death I asked my mother if she wanted to be buried in the family cemetery next to the Baptist Church she declared New York was home not SC. She saw the hate and ignorance first hand and took us away from that. But today I live in SC and I will fight to keeps moving them forward where do not see black(African) Americans or white Americans only Americans. God help us get there.

[@delgada747]

You may be able to get a census birth certificate for your mom from the Federal government.

[@raygreenfinger]

Record the stories via a digital device. This is History that needs to b shared

[@Jon1LAW]

My great-grandmother was raised in SC as well, it seems as if alot of roots started there and spreaded out.

[@user-ry7xl6fb4x]

My Dad was born 1908 . I am youngest of 9 oldest siblings 85 four living

[@D4L_457]

Yea we still talking about the Holocaust no one gets mad, but talk about how Black people was treated in America.

[@user-se9vh2sm6k]

Exactly. We're told to stop crying about it and shut up and dribble

[@you-in-yourfeelings7166]

I literally just posted this.

[@cheriparisedwards3468]

Because the people who did it are the relatives of folks living now. They don't want to face the evil in their own family line and some still want to believe their racism has merit.

[@veronicaharris8541]

That's because the Holocaust happened in another country, not hear. There's still antisemitism worldwide

[@denisehenry3427]

😂 It's not funny, but history is repeated itself. How can we forget about slavery, when blacks are still fighting for equal rights.

[@Paula-133]

I’m 73 and this is/was real.I live in an Midwestern city not the south. I was the first black child in my grade school. Kindergarden, I was five. The first day my mother stayed with me for several minutes to make sure the teacher and other students would be kind. I was crying. A little white girl came up to me and said "Don't cry, let’s go play in the play kitchen". And I went with her. We reminded friends until High School. Seeing each other all the me. Our Mom's also became friends. But after the first day of High School my friend called to say that her Dad didn’t want us to be friends anymore. We were too old to be friends because I was coloured. And we could not see each other, at school or outside. She was crying. I pretended to cry but I could not. I was so upset and totally hurt I went blank. Mom called her back and screamed at her mother.” how could you do this to these girls”??? That is when we found out the her Dads brother was in the KKK. And that was the end of our friendship. It was painful seeing her everyday in classes we were polite like strangers when she knew and liked my own family. It was like being in an alternate reality. Filled with hate and ugliness. It took years to get myself out of this feeling that I was not good enough. I knew I was talented but I also knew I had a huge mark against me. This is just one story and this was daily life for people of colour in America until the 80's? This trauma has been so thoroughly swept under the carpet that people even in their 50's don't get it or believe it. And people here in the US wonder why we went backwards? It was not taught. Thanks for shinning a light I hope it helps.

[@paulacopeland8360]

I grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. I remember when I was maybe 5 years old, a white neighbor, who told my parents that he was German, called my brother and me, the n word. I wish I could go back in time so that I could tell that cretin that I descend from people who lived in the U.S. long before he came here and that he should go back to where he came from.

[@starwarsmcu-og6109]

Thats terrible. Times were sure different. Hope you've healed bc its painful to lose a friend as teenager under normal circumstances, even more hurtful like you did. My wifes family are Melungeon, poor folks didn't fit in with white or black people. God bless you

[@SmokeNGunsBBQ]

Blah blah blah all this does is gets italians bullied for being 'white' shove that commie bull

[@relaxlibrary4249]

I'm sorry you had to experience this, but thank you for sharing your story. This just demonstrates how evil racism is. It goes way beyond calling someone an ugly name or even physical violence. It affects the psyche of the victim for years and years. I haven't experienced racism from peers, but from people in power and it is absolutely devasting. I remember feeling the way you described, just blanking out. Embarrassed. Ashamed. Hurt. This is why it is so important for the non-melanated folks to call it out when they see it happening. Don't be scared to speak up. They need to call out their friend, uncle, cousin, sister, etc. for their racist behavior.

[@nyieshahopkins6700]

Thank you for telling your story and most importantly thank you for your service to our community. You are the person we should also be celebrating on Memorial Day.

[@owatagi]

What’s so interesting about the playground photo, is that each of the children at the fence had parents whose taxes paid for the playground.

[@ldgraham0276]

It's called White Supremecy. Period. You made a comment about a woman preventing a black couple from entering a lunch diner. She wasn't in fear of her job, it's white Supremecy, PERIOD..! That's it. That's all there is to it... And thanx for the posts. We love them... 😊👍🏿🌹☯️🥑

[@bfe954]

They were called “Dixiecrats” not “Dixiecans”. They were the racist wing of the Democratic Party. The KKK was founded by Nathan Bedford Forest, a Democrat. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood was a devout racist, and even the Planned Parenthood website had to admit it. It’s easy to google btw. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent the 101st airborne to Little Rock Central High School to enforce integration. ZERO Democrats voted in favor of the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Under the Law. ZERO Democrats voted in favor of the 15th amendment giving black people the right to vote. And those same Democrats who voted AGAINST those amendments continued to vote Democrat for another 25 years OR were replaced by other Democrats in Congress who continued to fight legislation. Joe Biden attended the funeral of Robert Byrd, exalted cyclops I of the KKK in 2010, called him a mentor. In 1977 Joe Biden said “I don’t want my kids growing up in a jungle, a racial jungle” shall I continue or I think you get the gist

[@misstriciaskitchen8640]

It bothers me when people act like this was so long ago and we should just forget about it. I’m 66 years old. I lived through this in Georgia. I went to segregated school, drank from the segregated fountain, used the colored bathroom, the colored waiting room at the doctors office, had to go in the back door at the dentists office. Our schools didn’t integrate until 1970. I was the first black person to work in the office of the largest employer in town in 1980. It wasn’t that long ago and I haven’t forgotten any of it and those are just a few instances, some of them were very painful.

[@mperezmcfinn2511]

I think a lot of people look at these images and the black and white film tricks them into thinking it was way further back than it was.

[@DECEPTICON33]

Those that ignore the history are doomed to repeat it. This country is the biggest hedonistic and hypocritical that you could possibly be. The violent abuses the rapes the torturing and the literal assault on Black America cuz of its existence is not that far back. The other thing is with this error a lot of the generations today are lazy minded and extremely ignorant to reality and real life history of this nation.

[@MoniqueHolmes]

Same, I experienced it in Florida, Mississippi, and New York. The victims are still alive.

[@SuszieQ1951]

I’m 72 and I lived all of this.

[@LupusJourney]

@MissTriciasKitchen8640 you and me both grew up during those painful times! We never, ever forget them. I remember the VERY FIRST time I was called the *n* word. I remember the VERY FIRST time I was told I had to wait to be served until all the why.te people were served. One NEVER forgets the horrors of racism! So, do we need to keep talking about it? You doggone skippy! I'll remind America and everyone in it till I depart this earth!

[@jayregal6478]

The TRUTH hurts CERTAIN people!

[@KAH-7]

Not huts, they don't have real ❤s, but EXPOSES their tyrannical deception.

[@user-se9vh2sm6k]

CRT CRT that's all they'll say smh

[@you-in-yourfeelings7166]

Very true!

[@badgirlhollywood9741]

Because they know they are racist

[@gloriaanderson7424]

It hurts all of us. I’m ashamed and in tears. And mad!!!

[@evelyn7881]

These are the real America. I'm 71 and didn't go to school with whites until 5th grade.

[@paulae9579]

It's not race-baiting it's just making them uncomfortable in their racism.

[@WarsawHess88]

No it's just race baiting and using the past for free money and publicity.

[@FedUpSista]

Continue to tell the truth. Facts are facts.

[@jennifermasino9137]

Danielle, I am a psychologist. You ask these "why" questions, and the answers are emotional. Not logical. Carl Jung's work on the "shadow self." Whatever you hate about yourself yourself gets projected onto others. You ask questions that challenge people's core beliefs about themselves and the world. Your questions are disquieting and unnerving to people because of the implications. Nobody wants to think of themselves or their family as monsters. To face uncomfortable truths means having to confront overwhelming feelings of shame. I am glad you are making the public uncomfortable because nothing changes when we are comfortable. Just keep your head up and keep going. I would wonder what kind of phony or fraud I would be if I had no haters. Keep going, it is a positive indicator that you have haters. The truth scares the 💩 out of people! It takes incredible courage to be authentic in this world, especially in public!

[@nytn]

I appreciate this so much. Also you gave me a lot to think about

[@wigzwhite99BC]

Yeah, plus if you look to close, you'll find the truth. So-called African Americans are the Copper Colored Indigenous of the America's. The deeper people dig, they'll come to find thar everyone else is an immigrant occupying stolen land.

[@youlandaJF1145]

Jennifer, I co-sign everything you wrote. Saved me a bit of time not writing it myself. Well said.. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@blackjohnny9570]

Very well said my friend

[@naturallyme3]

🎯👏🏽

[@cherylcurrie114]

As a child, 1948-, I was well aware of the hypocrisy displayed by the adults. But it was TV and Hollywood movies that reinforced my observations. 1950s-- The Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid, The Jack Benny show, and more were mixed race. Granted, the leading stars were white. Sports was white. Government was white. But young people ask questions, and the answers weren't making any sense. 1960s--Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? 1970s--Roots. My point is, artists paint the future. Courageous people challenge the norm. I watched MLK Jr live on TV. White news fear mongered that this could lead to a huge riot. Then he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech while 250,000 people from white to black listened with tears in their eyes. I was in high school when JFK was shot. I have watched massive changes within my lifetime. It wasn't done rhrough talking. It was done by showing a better future, challenging the status quo, and never ever giving up the fight for human rights.

[@leahlodgebrown7060]

And project 2025 is gonna take All that stuff away. 😢

[@robertbradley5480]

Thank you for being willing to bring this out and being willing to sincerely learn this. Mississippi early sixties a noose hung across the street in front of my grandmother's house.

[@JustHadToKnow]

I applaud you and agree with you. I find it troubling when people misrepresent themselves as Christians while harboring hatred towards those who are different from them.

[@DECEPTICON33]

call it what it is hypocrisy.

[@Powerule23]

Racism is their right to hate; religion is how they feel good about it.

[@tastyterpenes4140]

If this is all about politics and who we should vote for this election, then you should take into account what LBJ has done to the black Americans here… Welfare is the worst thing to ever happen to the black communities, you get more money as a single mother. Children without fathers are more likely to commit crimes and commit acts of violence. That’s the dirty secret of the democrats. They are the party of white supremacy. Actual quote from LBJ “I’ll have those (n words) voting democrat for the next 30 years!”

[@gingercake0907]

White Christian Nationalism is the ethnocentric ideology that uses symbols of Christianity to gain power politically, economically and socially. It is the underpinning of white supremacy groups ex Ku Klux Klan. It does not promote the teachings of Jesus Christ which is to love God, love your neighbor and love your enemies.

[@sageex3931]

​@@DECEPTICON33Exactly

[@nyieshahopkins6700]

My great aunt is apart of the Norfolk 17 in the tidewater Va area. Betty Jean Kea integrated Granby High school with the help of Military Police in the early 1960’s. There was no school for a year prior just to keep black people out. The churches came together and educated children and trained them on how to behave before integrating. The whole family sacrificed during that time. She is still alive and has one son who takes wonderful care of her. My mother was a little girl at the time. I hope you do more stories like this.

[@dt9233]

Danielle, you have a beautiful heart. Your expressions and your your verbal demeanor tell it all. We can see the pain in your face and in your voice while looking at the ignorance. Love that you took on a major just to bring people together to talk about this or just to listen. The portraits paint the truth back over the erased or the not taught. Thanks for standing up for what's right.👏👏👏👏👏💯💯💯👍

[@ultimateinspector4901]

It is definitely not race baiting. I was born in Mississippi and was raised in Louisiana in the 1970s. My parents and grandparents told me the good and bad and how they endured it all. Thank you for sharing.

[@belleoftheball7634]

Join the club! Black people have been told to shut up about all this for decades. We've seen these photos because we sought them out, and refuse to let others rewrite history and act like this evil never existed. My mom was also born in Mississippi in 1945. They were in the thick of things. Oral narratives are important.

[@starwarsmcu-og6109]

You should interview your mom and get it on video. Once the older generation is gone we lose the connection of those who seen it, lived it. I love this countrys history, even the bad parts. We owe it to future generations to tell the whole story or they will be clueless

[@lewzee2066]

They don't want us to talk about this because they don't want us to know who they truly are...If you forget history it will repeat itself... From 1970 to 1952 the American government only recognize white people as citizens..That wasn't long ago ...Civil rights movement was staged by the government.. Rosa Parks wasn't who we thought she was .. Everything we have been taught is a lie...The truth is we are dealing with the grandchildren of our wicked oppressors...They don't admit to what their ancestors did they hide it

[@jrmetmoi]

@@starwarsmcu-og6109good idea

[@blokcomNativeFaces]

Need some tissues for those tear drops? Not sorry at all to say the TRUTH but the biggest systematic racists today are 'democratic types' who have for decades now from teaching false history, segregation to attacks on other races e.g. attacking Latino street vendors, attacking Asian elderly, attacking whites.

[@kathleenking47]

Also..some of those crazy whites in MS, were either inbred, or had black grannies...they hid it by being anti black George Wallace..looked multiethnic

[@robertdennis550]

I'm 69 years old and was the only child of color in my 6th grade class and 1 of 3 in our entire school during desegregation in New Jersey in 1966. Our town of Union was the first Municipality north of the Mason-Dixon line to be threatened with Federal penalties in1965 if we didn't desegregate the schools.

[@lewzee2066]

The federal government wanted to desegregate so they could get our take dollars. I'm from Detroit and it was booming and thriving with so called black businesses...Same as Tulsa,Durham and every other city in America....We didn't deal with the federal government back then and they needed a way to get our dollars Oh these wicked devils the truth really need to be told...We aren't African we always been here ..They didn't bring us here we been here

[@maryesposito6521]

Thank you.

[@ob1smash]

History is awesome. Not always nice but important for us to learn from it. 👍🏽

[@Gardenlady-jt1sf]

Thanks for this video! Being a Black woman almost 60 years old, I have seen almost all 33 of those horrible photos at one time or another. Seeing the photos reminded me of the HBO documentary "4 LITTLE GIRLS". I think it was directed by Spike Lee. This was a very intimate, informative and interesting film. Of course the subject matter is terribly sad. It was through this documentary I heard of the evil character "Bull Conner".

[@EyeOfTheWatcher]

The reason that most of this is not taught in schools is because they don't want to admit that this stuff actually happen and that some of the people that was against equal rights for black are still alive. The other thing is the daughters of confederacy made it their mission to "sanitize history", that is why when slavery comes up people use the straw argument of slavery was practice around the world. PBS did a documentary on the civil rights movement of the 50\60\70 in the state of North Carolina and the ending the showed the names and pictures of the people that was killed along with how they was killed. Both black people and their allies was killed in horrible ways.

[@MA-yh2ko]

Notice there is never the victim accusation applied to Jewish victims of the holocaust.

[@sageex3931]

Exactly cause africans sold other Africans into slavery doesn't nullify what happened to black people in America. It's like a murder killing people and being like well jeffery dahmer and Ted bundy were worse you still killed somebody.

[@Tubes12AX7k]

What's mind blowing to me is that many of the Civil War Confederate statues were put up _many years_ after the Civil War ended. They were not put up in the immediate years following the Civil War. I can't remember who said this, but statues are a very emotional thing - they are not created to dryly and accurately represent history; their intention is to stir emotions. So what exactly are they trying to stir up?

[@sageex3931]

@@Tubes12AX7k Exactly!

[@banditdog1338]

@@Tubes12AX7k We don't do not honor losers is what Trump tells them, so why did they put their Confederate traitor statues and flags every where they lost hence losers.

[@Monaterdog]

I'm glad for your channel still learning history in my 30s

[@nytn]

Me too!

[@emcc-qn7bp]

​@@nytnMost people love American mythology waaaaaay more than they love actual American history. Your great grandmother passed because it was a matter of survival. Her life as a woman of color would have been in jeopardy every day otherwise. Passing was a difficult decision but one that under these circumstances would have sadly been very logical.

[@ToreyBurksSr]

I’m a 38 year old Black man from Little Rock, Arkansas and can tell you that as a child, I learned a lot about the “Little Rock 9” from school but even more from my family and community. I will say that for the last 20 some odd years, the city has gone through great lengths to recognize and make amends for the national tragedy that was the desegregation of Central High School. Still, for many generations after the footage and pictures were shown, this is what the rest of the United States and to some extent, the world, thought when they heard of anything Arkansas related. I am a new subscriber and am thoroughly enjoying your work and the ability To teach far lesser known history. Excellent work.❤ 11:41

[@NatashaSings]

The theatre in my hometown shut down rather than desegregate. My Nanna was also a teacher in rural VA. Her father was a teacher and pastor who encouraged congregants to house Black children so they could receive an education in Bowling Green, VA when their counties didn’t offer education. My Nanna went on to teach Richard and Mildred Loving (Loving v. VA), and was my living history that taught me important lessons on education, loving others, and using history to IMPROVE our future - despite how uncomfortable it may be.

[@afro_physicist_3143]

I am a black American man who just turned 30 this year. My biological Mother passed away in 2019. My biological father passed away in 2007. I was brought up in the foster care system in the Midwest. My parents were drug addicts. Foster care was a horrible experience in the inner city. My parents also had me later in their life. My father was much older than my mother and was born in 1934 In Mississippi. My mother was born in 1958 in Tennessee but grew up in St. Louis. Both black. People try to act like this stuff was so long ago but parents were directly affected by segregation. .I did manage to get a Bachelor's degree and now I am working on a Ph.D. I'm still a broke student. But to say my life has been challenging because of my background is an understatement. My parents were directly affected by Jim Crow and were born before the civil rights act. My dad was already 30 when the act was passed!

[@Blacktsalagi73]

My mother was from Tenn. too. She left a year after she got married to my father. We all went back with her in 1995 for the first time since she had left and showed us all of the places she couldn't get into. Walking into those places was a new experience for her. It was moving. But I did learn that most places all across the US (as you know) had stronger Black communities with their own facilities.

[@catwrangler7907]

As parent I'm proud of you and know that you will achieve all your goals. ❤❤❤

[@sageex3931]

I'm glad you got a degree make your parents proud bro🙌🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙌🏿

[@victorrowan3108]

Young lady, they would let children out of school early to see lynchings,trains had scheduled trips too. They sent post cards of lynchings to their friends that would say "this was the barbecue we had last night." Pictures of horrible mutilations and burning alive. Byron Donald thinks jim crow was great for black families WTF?

[@nunook5522]

My mom had to sit in the back of the classroom in the 40's. When it was discovered she couldn't see the board and needed glasses. She was only moved to the middle once she got her glasses. You couldn't try on shoes or be measured for your correct size, you had to draw around your foot on a piece of paper. many times this resulted in ill-fitting shoes.

[@nativeb.9718]

Wow! This video content is amazing! I just found your channel and I truly want to applaud you for doing such a wonderful job putting this together for those of us who are on the same page and correct side of history. You are a great person, mother and historian; thank you for what you do upholding the truth, speaking out and being a kind human, sadly this is very rare nowadays (with the 51% vs 49% fighting against one another in the U.S.). Please keep up the good work & fight and I look forward to more content in the future - well enjoyed! New follower as well. Love, peace and blessings to you and yours. 😊

[@mfrost363]

Thanks for sharing, some of these photos I've never seen, but keep ^em coming 👍

[@NiKiMa023]

4:47 Elizabeth Eckford is 82. She had two children. People saying ‘forget’ are trying to pretend this wasn’t during our current generations

[@maryesposito6521]

Thank you for the information. Amazing woman. 🦋💕

[@charleswaples4574]

The kid that played Adam Sandlers son in grown ups, his grandmother was one of the first black students to integrate Arkansas public schools.

[@AJ-ks9ef]

Yes, the late Cameron Boyce. His grandmother was one of the Clinton 12.

[@charleswaples4574]

​@@AJ-ks9efthink you I couldn't think of his😂😂✌🏿

[@andreabrown4541]

The Clinton 12 didn't live in Arkansas. They lived in Clinton, TN. The LR9 "integrated" schools in AR.

[@emmanueljoseph639]

I love your channel, just discovered it and I am hooked. So intellectual.

[@thinkbeforeyoutype7106]

Great reporting as always

[@rozchristopherson648]

I was born in 1961. Laws against miscegenation, especially interracial marriage, were only ruled unconstitutional in 1967. Since the foundation of the US, only 6 states never had such laws banning interracial marriage. Of the states that had such laws, some involved Asians or Native Americans, but ALL such states had laws against African Americans and white people marrying. That repeal was in 1967, only 50+ years ago, during my lifetime. The ban against race mixing was to keep "white" people more clearly identifiable in order to maintain their privilege.

[@fomalhauto]

If the term African American is used, why is European American used instead of white? African American is a recent ethnic group that is a continental mix - most African Americans are part European with the average African American being around one quarter European. 1/3 of African American men have European Y Chromosomes.

[@bfe954]

Margaret Sanger, the founder of planned Parenthood, was in favor of segregation and against race mixing. She said I quote “Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race. Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need. We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.”-Birth Control Review April 1933 In case people don’t believe me I cite my sources

[@stephenjames2690]

Re: the NYC school desegregation photo. I was in a NYC public school (18) in 64. Schools were "desegregated" that year, but those empty seats had probably been filled with White students. That year marked a period of White flight that ultimately led to greater educational segregation because they created segregated populations. Whites in the South BX, for ex., moved to the North. Eventually, those empty seats were filled with Black and Hispanic students.

[@chrishinds7896]

Or moved east out to Nassau or Suffolk countries

[@tonys302]

The same thing happened with public housing in the United States. Federal, state, and local governments created segregated public housing, and when whites fled to the suburbs, public housing became mostly black. Further, the public housing became overcrowded.

[@jefflewis4]

The caption was incorrect, it was a city wide school boycott over the lack of desegregation efforts from the city. The school depicted was in Jamaica NY, most of those empty seats would have been filled with black and Latino students.

[@LarLarLar36]

Thanks for this episode and the great work that you’re doing. You are making a difference ♥️🙏🏾

[@esobed1]

Little sister isn't scared for big brother... she is scared for the health of those two boys! The look in big brother's eyes is real.

[@LenaFerrari]

People don't want to talk about it, bc it's easier to forget it happened. But the easy path is almost never the right path. And the right path is to learn from the past, both to understand our present and to not repeat it

[@rickjohnson3073]

I grew up in Virginia, born in 1963. Although The Brown vs Topeka Board of Education decision was rendered in 1954, schools in VA were note desegregated until 1971. I was discussing history with my 10 year old grandson. He was shocked to learn I'd actually gone to segregated schools. People seem to think segregation was so long ago. I remember it well.

[@misstriciaskitchen8640]

I’m 66 years old and grew up in Georgia. My 17 year old granddaughter is always amazed to hear about these injustices. Our kids and grandkids think it was so long ago. I make sure to tell her i went to segregated school and experienced all of that.

[@PBLKW]

This was done deliberately that's why all the photos are black and white. A technique used to have people convinced convinced that segregation Jim Crow lynching happened over a hundred years ago because the photos of black and white.

[@DrK19682]

Exactly! I always say MLK was killed 4 months before I was born

[@kevinforeman4485]

​@@misstriciaskitchen8640 I grew up in the Bronx N.Y. 63 years old. 1st grade Had 2 YT kids in class. 2nd grade they were gone. Didn't see another white classmate till 7th grade. 8th grade they were gone. High-school 1 white guy , 2 white guys they were soon gone too. They fled to the suburbs ,and when the YT people left, so did any type of basic services like heat,hot water, sweeping & mopping the building, boiler repair. And they blamed the residents for the deterioration of the Bronx.

[@misstriciaskitchen8640]

@@kevinforeman4485 In 1970 when our schools integrated the white folks in town opened a private school (segregation academy). We never had more than 2 or 3 white kids in our classes, but we had lots of white teachers and administrators. The same holds true today. I went to graduation this year. There were only two white kids in the class. They were both special needs kids who needed escorts. For all intents and purposes we are still segregated.

[@bradcalhoun8976]

My mother was born in the 50s, in Louisiana! She’s been walking around partially blind in 1 eye since she was 8 because some white boy was mad that she was smarter than him and threw a pencil, hitting her in the eye!!!

[@Werkaholik261]

It's not race-bating, it's denial in the form of shame. Anyone who says anything bad to them, is met with aggressiveness. My first encouter with them, out side of my neighborhood, was a frightening one. All I waned to do was walk to the parade that was held nearby. There were four of us and we were chased through their neighborhood. The year was 1976, Philadelphiia, PA, Bicentenial Celebration. To this day, that memory pops up like it happened yesterday. There's more I had to endure. Surely, I was an actual victim in many ways.....that still exist today.

[@RLNDO-]

american history is NOT “race baiting” how sad is it to equate the two?

[@tracker235]

I love the fact that you are taking the time to learn. Just as it has been for you, it was difficult for me and a lot of others to feel the magnitude of the Jim Crow era (and prior) because we were not directly involved. I have since taken the time to educate myself through documentaries and the like. This was not that long ago. And there are some who in this moment are trying to erase such a significant part of a human experience that continues to affect the lives of people in significant ways today. My hope is that there are many who follow your lead,. Especially the young and others who feel disconnected from the experience. The understanding has opened my eyes. And it has provided me empathy in a form that I had no idea was missing. Thank you.

[@PBLKW]

The only thing you're coming to miss is the actual perpetrators and the victims of the atrocities. You call us a certain group of people. Acknowledge us we are black, and it happened to us. Your comment is so dismissive. While you give a perceived perception of understanding, you be little at the same time

[@timothyharris1125]

People conveniently forget that this isn't that long ago.

[@PBLKW]

Was done deliberately conveniently using black and white photos to convince the masses that this was actually over 100 years ago. A deception and dismissal tactic

[@lesal.1373]

I grew up in an activist family. I watched this unfold in real time. I'll be 65 this year. This country was founded on the racist ideal of slavery. It's in the country's DNA. Until this is addressed correctly, policy & policing changed and reparations made, it will continue. We also need to make teaching your child racial hate a federal offense!

[@1458theresa]

I grew up near Cincinnati, and had parents who didn't buy into the race thing. My dad was born in a interracial neighborhood. I am 3 years older than your mom. It wasn't that I was aware of what was going on, but my parents kept the hate out of it. I am so thankful for them as I watch your videos. I work in the medical field, and have been working with all races most of my life. People are people, no matter what your skin tone is. My family looks a bit like a multi nation gathering. I have commented in one of your past videos how my jaw was on the floor over Italians not being "white". Though one of my Italian relatives was refused service in South Dakota because they thought she was First Nation's! That was in the 90's. Check out Norman Rockwell paintings he did on race.

[@bamboosho0t]

I also grew up in Cincinnati during the 80s and 90s. I remember the racial tensions escalating, especially in the early 90s downtown. I don't recall it being specifically about Cincinnati, but a response to the national dialog post-Rodney King in 1991 created tension between urban Af. Am people and Cincinnati Police. For a few years, my parents forbade me from going downtown by myself because tensions were still running high. Overall, I agree, I didn't have many issues at all growing up as an Af. Am kid in a Jewish community.

[@winkwink2u]

Southern Italians are not generally White, they are Mediterranean. Mid Italy is Whiter, then Northern is the Whitest.

[@DanielFowlerSr]

Thank you, Danielle. I was born in the '60s in Jersey City, and this is Refreshing!

[@18chaney]

Idk how I found you but I really enjoy your content ❤

[@nytn]

I'm so glad! Im learning in public :D

[@Vernon1960]

Danielle, I was born in South Carolina in 1960 and my first years of attending the movies at the local theater was in the "for colored only" balcony. There was a separate window at the back of the ticket booth and a very short menu of movie "treats" which could be purchased when you purchased your ticket. I remember the "colored" water fountain in front of the county court house. When the "practice" was discontinued, they simply removed the signs and turned OFF the water to the former "colored" fountain. They were not side-by-side as to not offend white females when consuming the water which came from the same pipes. When I was a child, the city police chief and all but one one officer were open members of the KKK. They later hired a black officer and he also wasn't a member. The town is very different now but I remember those things and much more.

[@misstriciaskitchen8640]

My hometown closed down the white pool rather than integrate it. My sister and a friend went before it closed and all the white kids got out.

[@michaelmitchell5098]

Nynt--This is THE best and most Moving programs you have ever posted. It brought forth long pent-up tears from me. Those photos captured a mood and movement that NO sit down interview ever could. Thank you so much.

[@SmokeNGunsBBQ]

What are you a girl?

[@amarisankofa2003]

I appreciate your work. Thank you.🌞

[@eugenebraxtonamericasmoste8979]

I like your channel, keep up the good work

[@NiecyQ]

Segregation in Tennessee was still occurring in the 1980s. My mother was from the Midwest, father from a segregated town in TN. When he brought her to visit my grandparents for the first time they made a stop near Nashville. They had a sign that said "No Blacks Allowed." Also, the Midwest was segregated by a different name.

[@KingAlexv]

Good morning from NY Keep up the good work

[@nytn]

Morning! No knocks against my NYers in this video, but a few shocking NY photos...

[@glendockins1226]

Thanks For Sharing This Topic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Appreciate It Alot !!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👈👈👈👈👈👈👈👈👈👈👈👈👈👈

[@jamess5179]

Hey, you recorded this on my birthday. Also, it’s always better to face a hard truth then a lie!

[@lagunn327]

All History should be the norm in schools so we do not repeat Racsim, HATE and other mistakes of the past. If this was taught in schools, perhaps some children would not grow up into Racists. I am 61, my grandfathers, fathers and uncles have been veterans only to be hated by the country they fought for!!!

[@moweems5802]

Interesting factoid: The young white girl directly behind Elizabeth Eckford yelling the racial taunts later became good friends with Elizabeth. In their adult years, the two of them joined together and gave seminars on racism. They toured college campuses all over America. I believe they are both still with us. Also, from what I understand, Elizabeth had missed her ride that day which is why she was walking to school by herself and not with the other black kids in the famous Little Rock 9.

[@bamboosho0t]

Since Civil Rights, a large measure of WT Americans have sought social "forgiveness." While Af. Am people seek social "acceptance."

[@kaiyakershaw1028]

@@bamboosho0tI think that’s partly it. I think that unfortunately a lot of white people want forgiveness without having to apologize. It’s because of the continued existence of the mindset of white supremacy that whites think they’re entitled to forgiveness regardless of whether they’ve done the work to even understand that they need to ask for forgiveness.

[@veronicaharris8541]

Elizabeth didn't miss her ride, she didn't have a phone & missed the call not to come in that day

[@andreabrown4541]

I think their "friendship" has been vastly conflated. Eckford has addressed the matter at length.

[@javiercastro8466]

No need to apologize for reacting to the injustice, it shows that you are a real human.

[@Penn4286]

Danielle , earlier in this Twenty-first century, a Greek-American who was on the City Council in Reading , Pa. said that when he was visiting Cuba before Castro took over , black Cubans would have to step off the sidewalk whenever a White person was walking toward them and walk in the gutter.

[@NiKiMa023]

Apologies, this is the same thing that was happening in parts of America, I’ve missed your point

[@Penn4286]

NiKi , I wasn`t actually trying to make a "point". I was just saying that Black people were treated second-class throughout the Western Hemisphere. I watched an interesting documentary about how Argentina years ago tried to "erase" their African citizens and pretend that they have always been a White country. When my grandfather moved to the U.S. from Italy , his brother moved from Italy to Argentina. Danielle and I got-off on the wrong foot , but I am very fond of her now.

[@RobertoAlvarezGalloso]

I have family [multiracial] in Cuba that lived before and after Castro. Many Cubans [as well as Latin Americans] had differences related to class not to race. There was nothing about walking in the gutter. In fact, there were mixed marriages in Cuba and Latin America. I lived in Venezuela before Chavez and felt freer than in the Midwest with their attitude of friendship based on race and ethnicity equality. I even dated a mixed race girl in Venezuela. The same in the Dominican Republic. The people who left Cuba and went to the Midwest [and Pennsylvania] eventually left for New York or California because of the segregation and racism in the Midwest and Pennsylvania. Before talking about other countries, we should resolve what we have in America. I remember seeing racism in Ohio and other areas of the Midwest to the point that I left after telling the people there the truth [about their racism]. But I remember that many cities and towns in the Midwest [including Ohio] were Sundown Cities [Safe in the Day but Dangerous in the Night], were scenes of violence toward those who are Non White. I still remember the divisions of many areas in Cleveland into enclaves based on race and ethnicity with those who are not of such race or ethnicity told to do business and leave. We have only addressed the surface of our racial and ethnic divide. We have a long way to go.

[@MRC5981]

The truth is this: anti-blackness is a propaganda that has been distributed globally. There is no denying it.

[@larryhollins459]

The same you in America

[@riparchivist]

I was very moved by your reactions to the images. I'm in my early 70s and I have seen many of those images most of my life. The picture of Ruby Bridges has been attached to memory whenever I see or think of the word courage I suppose because we are so close in age. Many Americans may have paid little attention to those images (although I vividly recall network news footage of the dogs and fire hoses), but people around the world saw these images courtesy of Soviet media which delighted in exposing the domestic realities in a country quick to condemn perceived human rights violations in other parts of the world.

[@DT-zy7fe]

These events are actual events that need to be told and never silenced. Growing up in Alabama in the late 60s, I had first-hand experiences, including the surrounding states, i.e., GA, TN, MS, AR.

[@cheleftb]

I appreciate you covering this.

[@ralphphillips3983]

This is what they mean when they say Make America Great Again .

[@JamesJones-mn1ld]

That's definitely not what that means. You are delusional.

[@bfe954]

Ummm no it isn’t. Not even close. Case and point #1 m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5etaaGjma6fZ9k Case in point #2. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmmbl32KapqIqLs

[@gladius1275]

The goals of MAGA is giving all power to whites and Christians who are males and marginalizing or outrightly discriminating against everyone else. This is a power grab and they are heading this nation towards autocracy with an authoritarian leader and we all know who that is. In the end this will be horrible for the nation and most Americans. This must be stopped at all costs. For the sake of our children and future of this nation we all must vote blue. Vote for sanity, vote for decency, and vote for equality.

[@philipwhatley6742]

@@bfe954 then point to a time in history on america soil where it was "great" for all people

[@bfe954]

If by “Great for all” you mean “Great OUTCOME for all” then the answer for every country in human history is never. That’s a utopian society that does not and will never exist. It’s impossible to create perfect equality of outcome, and this is where Progressivism fails because it is built on a faulty premise of human nature. Humans aren’t created equal in terms of talents, abilities, work ethic, personality etc. I think everyone knows that on some level. So when progressive policy tries to artificially create equality of OUTCOME it automatically creates INEQUALITY of opportunity. I’m all for equality of opportunity but I am not in favor of equality of outcome. No one is denying that at certain times in history, black people (and others) did not have equal opportunity. It was a moral sin, but often times what is overlooked is the reason WHY it was a sin. Progressives like to talk about it being wrong because black people were “in chains.” However, the more sinister and deceptive evil of slavery is that the person who works isn’t the one who eats the corn. In other words, it’s “theft.” I recommend you check out Coleman Hughes…he’s a black intellectual centrist who has never voted Republican. He points out some of the flaws with the modern way of thinking about race.

[@charlesislaw]

Mad Luv&Respect for you Sis

[@harrypatterson8802]

God bless you....the simple fact that you made this vid speaks volumes but your emotions shows your spirit mackup and I'm certain the creator is smiling on you. Thank you!

[@evelynclark3926]

I'm a black woman over 74 years old I grew up Chicago in a all black community. Been through Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, H Rap Brown, Stockley Carmichael We saw on TV blacks in the south of Blacks being physical and emotional abused. The police put German Shepherd dogs and fire hose the police were using their sticks beating unarmed blacks in the head with intent to kill. On the news we witnessed the hate of WS. I wanted to join the groups but my parents refused to let go. But I remember when Dr. King was ass murdered and the West side of Chicago riotsted day and night. And I became fearful about going down south George Wallace was a bigot something happened to him medicaly he ended up in a wheelchair and he died I think he had a stroke. But blacks are still being selected via police and beaten. As an young adult I experienced racism which left me hating WS.

[@nytn]

That is so much trauma, both collective and personal. I am so sorry.

[@KAH-7]

My mother will be 75 on the 29th!

[@davedammann741]

Wallace was shot consequently paralyzed.

[@mattrainey7120]

Wallace was shot

[@GilliumO]

A lot of the time, you hear things like "it's over" or "it was s long time ago." But it's not over and it wasn't a long time ago.

[@FABRIC8TIONUNLIMITE1]

Nothing has changed.

[@jaredgrimes5532]

Harsh truths. I'm here for it 💯

[@fugazi225]

thanks for info

[@simshill295]

People never be afraid of history the good the bad. Teach it learn from it…never hide. The more you know the more you can think of solutions. Good post.

[@pete6300]

I have said many times in this comment section that people don't understand how much of this hatred carried over to their children that attended school in the 80s. My black friends and I used to fist fight country boys all the time. Our animosity came from our parents. We were also the first generation to fully attend an integrated school. We changed the south with our ability to get along

[@jimmybellmon1268]

Nice presentation ❤

[@stephenhandrailronin1060]

This is brave work that you are doing I wish more people would want to learn and open up and communicate, healing will never come if you don’t address the wounds

[@moweems5802]

If you ever have the chance to see the Ruby Bridges movie (Disney) from a few years back, I highly recommend it. That child went through psychological turmoil everyday in the classroom. She was paranoid about eating her lunch because she thought they had poisoned it.

[@Willow-cw9te]

😢😢😢😢 that little girl didn’t deserve that 😔

[@relaxlibrary4249]

It's horrible what those kids had to go through. In the documentary, Eyes on the Prize, one of the Little Rock Nine, recalled how she received a beautiful new coat for Christmas during the break. Then she realized she couldn't wear it because the kids would ruin it by throwing food and what not at her and she talked about how she would make sure to not wear new clothes or her favorite clothes to school because it would be stained by the end of the day by hateful students throwing stuff at her. Just terrible for kids to have to think like that.

[@mperezmcfinn2511]

I wonder how her parents got through the day? I can't imagine what it must have been like going to work trying to focus on my job knowing I'd sent my daughter into a place where the adults were just as unreasonable as the children.

[@Mimi-ht6xr]

I grew up in the 7th Ward which before the 1980s was a Creole community. We never knew nor were taught about Ruby Bridges. In a college course l remember going over it but for some reason l always thought she was in Alabama. I never saw little AA girls that looked like Ruby in the neighborhood. I don’t understand why or how her mother could have allowed her child to endure such isolation and horrors. I watched the documentary fascinated.

[@relaxlibrary4249]

@@Mimi-ht6xr A better question is why the perpetrators of these horrors would subject a child to their terror. Alabama wasn't a safe place for little Black girls during that era. They weren't even safe going to church. Birmingham was called Bomingham during the 60's because of WS violence.

[@daoistdansah54]

Beloved, keep on keepin' on. We support you.

[@timbutler38]

Danielle, I applaud you, I appreciate you, and I love what you're doing. As a fellow Christian, I also love your perspective on the issues you address

[@joanngardner2241]

Blackpeople couldn't talk then. We were killed for less. We couldn't speak on our jobs, we couldn't speak in public gatherings. We are still here, and we remember how you treated us. Not only were you cruel, you relished in it. We are great runners, and motivated by our gifts, to separate ourselves from people who lead with anger. Why do we have to explain this? We wait to see where you're going, so we can go the other way (but, you never left). We, had to find another way. We found it (life, shows us, the way).

[@mrs.kpbailey]

❤🙏🏾

[@OllieMissouri-is6ei]

It’s the WS who have had the problems. I am at peace with the melanin enriched, from the richest continent, liking the Asians as well from the largest continent. Really, the WS have the problems.

[@RonnieRowe-il7eq]

That is a very very IGNORANT statement! And you know it!

[@user-xx2vz5mz3v]

​@@RonnieRowe-il7eqwe know ...were supposed to forgive & forget being terrorized for 400 yrs

[@londonmmc]

@@RonnieRowe-il7eqwhy are you doubling down on hate? You have the benefit of hindsight and perspective and still would rather show no empathy whatsoever

[@LenaFerrari]

64??? My mom was born in 64. She's not even a grandma yet

[@PinkQueen78]

Thank you!

[@youlandaJF1145]

Young lady please don’t give up searching out the truth and continue to speak up and speak honestly about this countries REAL HISTORY! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@lagunn327]

I love your videos! Either I learn something new, get new perspectives on the past or work on healing! Fabulous job! Well done!❤

[@jaakanshorter]

The NY "empty" classroom was a reminder that it wasn't just a southern thing. That was the most shocking as even though I heard all of those stories from my parents as they live through those times in school ( in Maryland ) Those NY pictures triggered a thought. You should totally look into the rise of private schools as it parallels desegregation.

[@tonys302]

Yes, Malcolm X said “Stop talking about the south. As long as you are south of the Canadian border, you are south.”

[@MrHumbleSoul]

Thank you 😊

[@jeromevspears]

Wonderfully done, very informative, thanks for doing this, keep up this necessary work!

[@msshoeka5573]

I am 70 yrs old I live in the South .....this is real. I experienced it. All my grandkids are mixed. I am glad they are not experiencing this. Thank God

[@Hay-tw3xl]

Bastards!! Smh

[@findbridge1790]

u r accomplishing so much !! t y {luv u :)

[@lamellrivers]

Their pushing for people to stop talking about it so we don't notice the slow push to get us back there...

[@bookerwellsviews-nq1xr]

Once again, thank you for your content.

[@mrs.kpbailey]

Our parents still bear the scars. Peace, everyone. 🙏🏾

[@loveblue2]

I'm 72. I grew up in Berkeley, CA, which was a totally different racial experience I would have had if my mother had chosen to remain in her native Louisiana instead of moving to California in 1943. I remember when I started kindergarten in 1957, my class was totally integrated, so my initial thoughts and experiences about race was people had different skin colors, but I saw it as interesting and positive thing. There were no 'whites only'/'colored only' signs anywhere. It wasn't until I was around 11 that I started to learn about racism, after seeing news stories on TV about the civil rights protestors, and hearing my adult family members talk about the freedom riders. Nothing was ever explained to me, so the scenes I saw filled me with dread. I find it interesting that, a lot of the time, when I voice my opinions about slavery and the Jim Crow era online, making it known that I am black, people respond with this "get over it" attitude and/or, aren't you tired of carrying around that burden of how oppressed you were. Thank you for doing this video. America's part in the vileness of slavery and Jim Crow cannot just be swept under a rug somewhere; especially since it is still an ugly part of American society.

[@Gardenlady-jt1sf]

So true

[@poemandres]

We need to be reminded of all the times we have fallen short and acted horribly to one another to hopefully avoid it going forward...we still have a ways to go and it is not condemnation against one group we are all capable of falling short and still are doing so but we have to keep making progress toward the ideal of doing unto others as we would have them do unto us...

[@denisedovealderman7234]

I am 55 and did not learn real history in school. I am learning now because of researching family trees. I dont know if you have seen the Virginia Eugenics law and Albert Priddy. I cannot express the horror I felt reading the information and realizing none of it was that long ago.

[@regina7795]

I’ve seen all these images all my life and heard many stories throughout my family. Born 1964 and in the 70’s being told my family can’t sit in the restaurant after we bought our food while on a road trip in the south.

[@bxc8023]

They hate the truth! You're shining a light on their dark past that they're desperate to keep from coming to the light!

[@zigm7420]

My parents’ generation would have been the ones depicted in those photos. Coming from a “passing” Southern family, I can tell you several things. 1. Passing was seen as safety. 2. The people most afraid of being found out would be the loudest and most racist. 3. People don’t change their opinions, they just get better about hiding them.

[@Hay-tw3xl]

When you got that hate/ rapist blood, you gotta do what you gotta do!!!